Won’t somebody think of the rich?!
“When there’s no need to work, where do you get your sense of meaning and purpose and structure?"
Like literally anywhere? Except maybe twitter, that usually doesn’t end well…
Motherfucker never heard of a hobby
Just because one financially doesn’t need to work doesn’t mean one is forbidden from doing so. Plenty of openings in retail with lots of opportunity for arguably meaningful human interaction.
They could also, you know, spend time helping others, instead of being fucking social vampires.
What absolute poison that some People come to this conclusion that, the ultimate freedom in an advanced 1st world economy, makes your life devoid of meaning and purpose when it actually gives you greater freedom to pursue the truly meaningful things in life like friends, family and your own self-fulfilment.
Yeah, there’s a reason it’s always the new rich you hear about having these troubles. They weren’t taught how to deal with this, and had spent a lot of time defining themselves off their work. They just aren’t prepared for picking up three hobbies and a few social groups.
And I think there’s selection bias here too. I’m never going to be new money. I’m too dedicated to my wife, community, and hobbies to dedicate my life to the pursuit of financial gain. And if I had that kind of money and time I’d be investing both into them. There’s always something you can help out with
It’s almost like we’re under an economic system that perpetuates itself at the expense of literally every single person on Earth, and we would all be better off if we abolished it.
B-but… the numbers need to go up! Think of the hedge funds!
Give away your wealth
Give it to me.
And me. Yes rich people, we will take on your isolation burdens. What wonderful, selfless people we are!
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So all of you living-rough, dumpster-diving, skipping medications, holding down three jobs, etc - what do your therapist say?
Oh wait, how much does this therapy cost again… But I’m sure there’s no selection bias.
I’m not sure, my therapist only schedules appointments during times that I’m at work and I haven’t been able to afford skip work to talk to him.
Give it away
Give it away
Give it away
Now
We could make a parody of “come sail away” with this.
give it away
give it away
come give away to me now
To whom? Who do you trust enough? What if those funds end up going towards gay conversion therapy or something like that?
Unless there’s a government driven system in place which ensures reasonable utilization of resources, “giving it away” may cause more damage. Exception is if there’s a charity you super trust, but most of that funding usually pays execs salaries.
Note that so much charity was done for pro choice efforts, but now some women don’t have the right to abortion in the U.S. because some people bought the Supreme Court. So no, don’t “give it away” unless either know where it ends up, or are okay with whatever the consequences may be.
The only reasonable use of money in the current system is lobbying or political action committees.
I mean, nobody’s making you behave like a rich person. Grab a modest house in suburbia, send your kids to public school, and maybe take a few extra vacations a year to nice places but don’t talk about it. Guess what? Now you fit in with the rest of us.
But that’s not what this is about, and they certainly have the option to not be perceived as rich. The rich want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to have all the wealth yet be treated like normal people when it suits them while also being treated like they’re rich the rest of the time.
While wealth can bring with it some unconventional problems — such as being denied an invite-only Ferrari and accidentally destroying swathes of coral reefs with a 300-foot yacht — most other problems that the rich face may not be as esoteric as we think.
Yeah maybe such inequality shouldn’t exist, where someone can spend unfathomable amounts of money on bullshit toys, while others don’t have the bare minimum to live. Don’t accumulate this kind of wealth and you solve both problems at once.
“Wealth can be pretty isolating … sometimes all eyes are on you to see what you do with your money,” she said, noting that some clients face the pressure of how they hope to be remembered, and where the money should go — whether it be investments, philanthropy, or legacy building.
Yeah another psychopathic take, “I have to be remembered as a good person!”, how about you just make sure to DO good, who fucking cares how you’ll be remembered once you DON’T EXIST ANYMORE?
View other people as numbers, view the world as a zero sum game, screw over your peers because they would do the same to you, yeah that seems like it would be isolating.
Send it here, I could use some isolation.
As that philosopher said, mo money mo problems.
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Yeah, preying on the worker class does sound like it could make you isolated.
Boo fucking hoo.
Look, I started reading this article. Four paragraphs in I realised that I don’t care.
